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Show 104 INDIAN DEPEEDATIONS cept a few saddle horses ; and the expedition return-ed with the stock. Bishop Nephi Packard, to whom we are indebted for some of this information says " While at the fort, the citizens brought in the bodies of Moran and Carson, frozen stiff. Their bodies had been mutila-ted, and when they were thawed out with warm water for the purpose of dressing them, it created a stench which together with the sight of their mutilated bodies, made him sick. They were buried there." FROM TULLIDGE'S HISTORY, VOL. 3, PAGE 157. By John Banks. John Banks of Spanish Fork, one of the found-ers of that place communicated the following addi-tional details confirming the Tintic War, which was supplied in Tullidge's History, Vol. 3, p. 157. In February 1856, T. S. Johnson, a U. S. Deputy Marshal, came to Palmyra in pursuit of Indians who had been committing depredations on the whites, expecting that he would find some of them with Peteetneet ' s band, but failed. He then received word by express that the Indians had killed two of the Hunsaker's herds- men, on the west side of Utah lake, and that a herd- boy was missing who was sup-posed to be killed also, for the Indians had taken the whole herd of cattle. Peteetneet, the chief of the Indians on the Spanish Fork, being friendly dis-posed was consulted. Peteetneet was grieved at the hostilities of Tintic and his band, and remarked that Tintic had ears that were no good and of no use to him. He had good council given him, but he would not hear it, and ( Peteetneet) wanted Peanitch, the |